Category: 2015

Not much left to say… except that one other performer laughingly challenged me to make Matt Nakoa look bad in a photo. Here’s the first of Matt’s nights on stage. Did I meet that challenge here? Yet? Sunday, May 24 Monday, May 25 Tuesday, May 26 Wednesday, May 27 (somehow, my Thursday pix are … at […]

OK, the rains really did hurt the festival. Ticket sales, of course, died, and lightning struck one RV in the festival campground (with no injuries), electricity went out over most of the 51 acres, and moral was down a little bit. But, Kerrverts are champions, and weathered the storms bravely and got everything back up […]

Kerrville Folk Festival — a continuing blog for a while. Between New Folk concerts and competitions, ballad trees (which are open mics in the most acoustic form possible — no amplification), and hearing lots and lots of new performers, even the disappointment of having to cancel all of Saturday night’s events — including Emmylou Harris, Rodney […]

I (this is Mary Jane here) think I will do a daily blog similar to what I could do at Larry Joe Taylor Fest. Blog being ‘I’m included’ compared with Website being ‘It’s all about the other person.’ The staff orientation is tonight (Wednesday, May 20), but it isn’t by any chance the beginning of happenings […]

Many photos on links below. The first three days at Melody Mountain Ranch and the Larry Joe Taylor Texas Music Festival, I blogged each day’s activities and included a few photos. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday were harder to do, because of the increased population. With everybody using cell phones and internet, it was next to impossible to get online […]

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Mary Jane Farmer, Texas Nexus, August 2017 It’s a 3-column list I have worked up — “PACK UP” it’s called. It’s what I have to reference and cling to when getting ready to go to all the music festivals in my life. And there’s a bunch! Me and Hippie Van head out. She has clean […]

Because you asked… The Celebrate Austin Music Festival at Zilker Park, circa April 15, 1984, was filled with Austin-based touring acts with generous sprinklings of up-and-comers. A lot of that information is in Rod Kennedy’s book, Music of the Heart, written many years before his 4-14-14 death. It had been a long three-day event, and […]

This was first in Buddy Magazine, August 2016 issue. People ask me a lot — why am I in the music business? OK, I’ll share the secret – it was a guy who got me into all this. While teaching school in El Paso, I met another teacher, a musician, out there and that chance meeting and […]

(I’m sorry, but we got absolutely NO photos of these people.) Ake Pecha — I was told this means “Start fresh, my friend.” It was probably around 1982 when Kerrville Festival Producer Rod Kennedy took a trip to the southeast, where he met a group of travelers from the Scandinavian countries. This was the “International School […]

This took a lot of prayer and thanksgiving for me to write and publish. This was one changing quote in my life… From the movie “Mozart,” this statement by composer Salleri: “Why?… implant the desire (for music)… like a lust in my body? And then deny me the talent?” Early on, I could not figure out myself […]